Will Potter’s “Little Red Barns” is an impassioned and thoroughly researched examination of factory farming and how it harms animals, the planet and us.

Factory farms, also called “concentrated animal feeding operations” (CAFOs), enable meat companies to pump out enormous ...

Factory farming is the intense confinement of farmed animals raised for food, considered inhumane by some, to meet consumer demand for animal meats.

What she didn’t realize was that he was also against the factory farm system, having experienced first-hand the way it abuses farmers. What unfolded in the years after their first meeting was an ...

Factory farming, overwhelmingly dominated by huge corporations like Tyson, Smithfield, ConAgra and Seaboard, has contributed to rural depopulation and the decline of the family farm. It has nothing ...

Factory farming’s defining quality is sheer quantity, as my friend and philosopher John Sanbonmatsu put it. It’s reengineered the makeup of life on Earth to such an extent that, ...

Factory farms generate greenhouse gasses and other pollution, and require vast amounts of freshwater. To combat global warming, the United Nations has urged people to consume less meat.

Restricting factory farming should play a key role in efforts to cut climate-warming greenhouse gases, an environmental charity said on Wednesday, as emissions from "food systems" emerge as a ...

Finally, factory farms are a menace to health and the environment, especially their waste. In 2022, factory farms in Washington County, Iowa produced 156 times as much manure as the county’s human ...

By design, factory farms generate stunning amounts of waste from the thousands or even millions of animals they confine. And while the industry swears it treats that waste “responsibly,” neighboring ...

The measure would prohibit New York farms from owning more than 700 cows in an effort to curb factory farming. New York is the nation’s fifth-largest milk producer, with around 3,000 individual ...